Indian PM moves to cool panic as thousands flee cities

NEW DELHI: India’s prime minister assured migrants from the northeast of the country that they were safe as thousands continued to flee from Mumbai, Bangalore and other cities on Friday, fearing a backlash from violence against Muslims in Assam state.

Railway authorities have laid on extra trains from Bangalore and other cities this week for the two-day journey back to Assam in the northeast. Some media reports said that by Friday as many as 15,000 people had left cities in the south and west, including Mumbai and Pune.

Muslims across India have been alarmed by clashes in recent weeks between indigenous people in the northeastern state of Assam and Muslim settlers from neighbouring Bangladesh.

About 75 people have been killed and more than 400,000 displaced.

The Assam violence angered India’s Muslims, who represent about one-fifth of the population, and raised tensions in a country where religious and ethnic divisions have simmered for decades, occasionally erupting into communal blood-letting.

Rumours of revenge attacks by Muslims have been swirling, many of which have been carried on social media and mass mobile phone text messages.

The Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has in the past been accused of fomenting Hindu-Muslim violence, blames the Assam riots on uncontrolled immigration into the state from Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

After three days of panic and frenzy, during which hundreds of people from Assam and other north-eastern states left Hyderabad city, Andhra Pradesh government seems to have succeeded in turning the tide.

The police managed to persuade a group of 60 Assamese to change their plans of returning to their home state. On learning that a group of Assamese working in two hotels were about to leave the city fearing attacks, Assistant Commissioner of Police K Govardhan Reddy and others met the group and assured them that there was no threat to their security.The group included 50 Assamese working at 'Mainland China' and ten employees of Hotel Swagath.The development took place on a day when a delegation of two ministers from Assam, Rakibul Hasan (forests) and Pradyut Bordoloi (power), arrived in Hyderabad to assess the situation. They met Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy and top police officials. They also visited Anjaiah Nagar and Siddique Nagar areas of Cyberabad, which has a sizeable population of Assamese.During the interaction with the ministers, the migrants expressed their satisfaction with the security provided to them. They told the ministers from their home state that the police authorities and the local people had extended full cooperation to them.Rakibul Hasan thanked the government of Andhra Pradesh for taking care of their citizens. "We have been deputed by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to thank the government of Andhra Pradesh for their cooperation," he said

Hyderabad: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi Friday assured people of the northeast region living in Hyderabad of protection and advised them not to leave the city.

The Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad told them that they are equal citizens of India, free to live here.

Addressing a gathering at the historic Makkah Masjid here on the occasion of Jumat-ul-vida or last Friday of Ramadan, the MP said he visited Anjaiahnagar and Siddiqnagar areas and reassured people from the northeast.

"I told them we are not like Bodo militants who rendered four lakh Muslims homeless in Assam. We will protect you," he said.

Owaisi alleged that the rumours were a conspiracy of the Sangh Parivar and appealed to people not to fall prey to their designs.

The MIM chief wondered why police failed to trace the elements behind the SMSes and offered to crack the case in four hours if the 48-hour call data record of all service providers was given to him.

Owaisi, who visited relief camps in Assam last week, urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to rehabilitate four lakh people who were made refugees in their own country.

The MP reiterated his remark made in Parliament that refugees in Assam could take to militancy. "Even if 25 youth become militants they can become a threat to all of us and to the entire country," he cautioned.

He condemned BJP leader L.K. Advani's statement that the refugees were Bangladeshi and reminded him that he too came from Pakistan.

"They are all Indians and will always remain Indians. Why should anyone fear that if any district in Assam becomes Muslim majority, it will join Bangladesh? We will sacrifice our lives but we will not allow even a single district to become part of Bangladesh," he said.

"I have never seen such devastation. Those rendered homeless have only one set of clothes, the ones they have on. Thousands of women are malnourished and children suffer from various diseases," said Owaisi while sharing his experiences in Assam.

The MIM leader said he also visited Bodo relief camps and distributed relief. "We don't discriminate between Bodos and non-Bodos. All are Indians," he said.

Owaisi announced that MIM would soon send 20,000 packets containing milk powder for children, iron-fortified powder for malnourished women and other medical supplies to alleviate the sufferings of those in Assam's relief camps.

Kind of sad how Indian Muslims get owned all the time in a fight with these snake worshiping Hindus Somebody told me that Indian Muslims aren't that keen in putting up their dukes in comparison to their afghan and Pakistani counterparts

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well the counter parts can be more courageous because those countries don't have a majority hindu population to deal with

We had people saying snake worshippers, elephant worshippers, monkey worshippers. It would be unjust if we leave out cow worshippers.

Did we miss 'anything else' worshippers?

Well the sad state is majority of the Indian population are brelvis...aka corpse worshippers. So naturally corpse worshipper cannot defeat snake, cow, elephant, monkey worshippers cause their gods are dead and unable to help themselves let alone helping their worshippers.
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The good news is ahlul-hadeeths people are doing great, many people have abandoned these kufr practises in Hyderabad. Hope one day shirk is eradicated and then there will be good in muslims of India.

well the counter parts can be more courageous because those countries don't have a majority hindu population to deal with

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dunno, i heard from a friend that the Gujjarat and Indian muslims are bit on the pacifist side and are not to keen to have a scrape, I dont know if its his Pakistani nationalism playing up or if he is telling the truth

We had people saying snake worshippers, elephant worshippers, monkey worshippers. It would be unjust if we leave out cow worshippers.Did we miss 'anything else' worshippers?Well the sad state is majority of the Indian population are brelvis...aka corpse worshippers. So naturally corpse worshipper cannot defeat snake, cow, elephant, monkey worshippers cause their gods are dead and unable to help themselves let alone helping their worshippers.------------The good news is ahlul-hadeeths people are doing great, many people have abandoned these kufr practises in Hyderabad. Hope one day shirk is eradicated and then there will be good in muslims of India.

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yes very true, there is a long way to go for Muslims in India when it comes to practicing pure tawheed, but alhumdulilah it's changing slowly, but a lot of people just absuloutely hate "wahabis" so there is little hope for changing them, it'd be lovely to see Hyderabad without seeing darghas everywhere, maybe one day in sha Allah.

well the counter parts can be more courageous because those countries don't have a majority hindu population to deal with

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Well the original muslims were much more of a minority than the indian muslims are today. But then worldwide there is no shortage of muslims. Its all about the eman i guess. That applies to all the muslim ummah. And we all know these events were predicted by rasoolAllah (saws).

NEW DELHI: Most of the threatening mobile phone text messages and website images that spread panic among migrants from cities in the south and west of India last week originated in Pakistan, India’s interior ministry said on Saturday.

Thousands of students and workers from India’s northeast fled Mumbai, Bangalore and other cities, fearing retaliation for recent violence against Muslims in Assam, one of the states in their far-flung corner of the country.

“After checking and verifying we are saying, with responsibility, that the bulk of SMSes (text messages) spreading rumours about the northeast region have come from Pakistan,” an interior ministry spokesman said, declining to be named for security reasons.

Arch-rivals India and Pakistan, who have fought three wars since their independence 65 years ago, regularly accuse each other of provocative acts.

We had people saying snake worshippers, elephant worshippers, monkey worshippers. It would be unjust if we leave out cow worshippers.

Did we miss 'anything else' worshippers?

Well the sad state is majority of the Indian population are brelvis...aka corpse worshippers. So naturally corpse worshipper cannot defeat snake, cow, elephant, monkey worshippers cause their gods are dead and unable to help themselves let alone helping their worshippers.
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The good news is ahlul-hadeeths people are doing great, many people have abandoned these kufr practises in Hyderabad. Hope one day shirk is eradicated and then there will be good in muslims of India.

as for this panic in india its all government sponsored to make people hate muslims even more.i have spent a long time of my life with subcontinent muslims.apart from few muslims bordering afghanistan area,all the rest of subcontinent muslims never fight back when attacked by hindus and sikhs etc. its very shameful truth i am about to write now but let me.
in 1947 hindus and sikhs murdered more than a million muslims and more shameful was that muslim women were paraded naked in indian streets and raped in mosques.i know for a fact that around hundred thousand muslim women from punjab and other areas of india were taken away from their muslim families and were made sex slaves,the family men of these women did not fight back to save their women,but saved their own lives whoever could.(in 1980s a guy from pakistan visited india and told that he met some of these kidnapped girls who had now grown old and had given birth to the kids of hindus and sikhs)

some people may be angry on why i mentioned this bitter shameful truth ,but remember its time we see the mirror. dont know what made me write this thing today which has been in my heart for long time.

i have talked to many eye witnesses of this muslim massacre and rape by hindus and sikhs in 1947,one by one these people are meeting their lord ,and i fear that next generation of muslims will not even remember what hindus sikhs did to their forefathers in 1947.even now same thing is happening to muslims in indian held kashmir.hindus and sikh army men murder and rape kashmiris daily.but kashmiri leaders always preach "tolerance" and they say daily that we dont believe the "voiolent ways" of taliban and our struggle will be purely political!
i wonder what is the effect of this subcontinent soil?which makes men even less ghairatmand or honourable than animals.
i am sure even an american will fight till death if you mistreat his family,these americans who have no faith and no religion but are prepared to give away their lives for their nation.we muslims have been promised heaven but our iman is so weak we remain cowards ad do not fight back when under oppression.its sort of azaab on muslim ummah too,for leaving islam .so now people prefer the short life of this world more than the eternal life of next world.

in begining of islam Allah chose arabs to seve islam.who had their shortcomings but were brave people and did not hesitate to sacrifice life for a purpose.it seems in end time afghan have been chosen to serve islam as they also like arabs have their shortcomings but see their courage,they dont hesitate to fight an enemy hundred times stronger than them and when loosing their life is hundred percent certainity still they fight.
Allah likes brave muslims